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Numerical Study of the Tillage Forces on Soil Plows

The industrial drainage plow is a mechanized tool used for the installation of agricultural drainage and land reclamation. A large machine controls the depth and angle of the mole to determine the grade and depth of the tile for piping or cable to be installed. The plow is used for agricultural drainage, trenching, and installation of underground cable ducts. To make the industrial partner’s plow more competitive in the industry, this research aims to optimize the plow’s shape for various soil conditions to increase the tile installation speed and to reduce the drag force, which will reduce the fuel consumption. Numerical methods will be used in this study to predict the tillage forces on the plow. The numerical models will be validated by comparing the numerical results with available experimental data. Numerical simulations will be carried out for the plowing processes under different working conditions with different plow shapes. Also, the load distribution on the mole will be obtained based on the numerical results, which will allow the optimization of the structural components of the machine to make the machine more efficient and more durable.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Chao Zhang

Student:

Partner:

Wolfe Heavy Equipment

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

The University of Western Ontario

Program:

Accelerate

Dynamic In-Game Tracking and Mapping

This research proposes a way to make speed up video game testing by creating a tool that can understand how a player moves through the game without any special information. Usually, video games are tested manually to find bugs and problems, which takes a lot of time and effort. The proposed solution would use gameplay footage to automatically figure out how the player moves and remember the surrounding environment. This information would make testing easier by reducing the manual effort involved. With faster testing in place, video games can be created faster, which will be a great benefit for video game companies and the industry in general.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Igor Gilitschenski

Student:

Partner:

AMD Canada

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Picking pithy plants: pith selection by wild, white-faced capuchin monkeys (Cebus imitator)

In this project, I examine the process of food selection by wild, white-faced capuchin monkeys using a novel multi-methodological approach. Capuchins are highly omnivorous, eating over 100+ fruit species as well as dozens of invertebrate prey species. However, when it comes to plant pith, the spongy interior of tree branches, capuchins are uncharacteristically picky, consuming only a handful of species of 300+ tree species available. To understand this selection process, I examine how dietary pith species differ from non-dietary pith species in multiple criteria, including mechanical hardness, relative amount of pith, macronutrient composition, and chemical profile. In my Mitacs Globalink internship, I will develop skills in chemical analysis by analyzing plant pith chemistry through gas chromatography-mass spectrometry at the German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) in Leipzig, Germany. I will identify the chemical compounds that differentiate dietary piths from non-dietary ones, seeking ultimately to understand the chemical basis of food choice by a wild omnivorous primate.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Amanda Melin

Student:

Partner:

German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Pharmaceuticals; Life Sciences (not health); Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Social structures in Brown Bears

The research project focuses on getting new insights in the social behavior of Brown Bears. The social system of a species describes the pattern of relationships between and among individuals and social groups and how these are distributed across the landscape. Animal sociality can affect individual fitness, and vice-versa, and is often a crucial factor in population management and sustainable long-term conservation. As human presence, e.g., hunting, is affecting population dynamics, instable social structures within a population might strengthen this effect over time. Thus, advancing such knowledge further is paramount for the conservation and sustainable management of wildlife populations. The visit to Canada would allow the student to get in contact with renown social behavior researchers and would greatly extend his skills/understanding. By participating in symposiums, the student would be able to show his research and share his ideas with a large crowd. The stay would also make it possible to work closely with the PhD students Canadian supervisors, which will have benefits for the ongoing PhD project.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Fanie Pelletier

Student:

Partner:

Universitetet i Sørøst-Norge

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Education

University:

Université de Sherbrooke

Program:

Globalink Research Award

3D Printed Bioreactor System for Analysis of Trabecular Bone Remodelling

Osteoporosis is a prevailing skeletal disease that was diagnosed in over 2.3 million Canadians as of 2016-2017, with 80% of this population being women. Osteoporosis imposes many health complications such as increased likelihood of bone fractures and implant failures. Since bone is a dynamic material that is constantly remodelling, it’s important to understand how osteoporotic bone remodels and how different factors such as mechanical or biochemical stimuli affect this remodelling. Previous studies have successfully implemented a polycarbonate bioreactor system which can keep bone alive for up to seven weeks for long-term observation of trabecular bone remodelling. Studies in the Center for Health Innovation (CHI) have implemented a 3D printed bioreactor which is significantly less expensive than the polycarbonate bioreactor, and increases the possible bone core size to meet mechanical compression testing standards. The present study aims to validate this 3D printed bioreactor system in the Centro de Bioingeniería lab in Viña Del Mar, Chile. Bovine bone cores 10 mm x 10 mm will be maintained and observed over a 21-day period for bone mineralization while being subjected to mechanical and biochemical stimuli.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Heidi-Lynn Ploeg

Student:

Partner:

Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Education

University:

Queen's University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Cyberentrepreuneur profiles based on the vulnerabilities they exploit and sell

The project aims to distinguish profiles of software vendors that allow the exploitation of computer security vulnerabilities. Data about the vendors and the vulnerabilities they exploit in their software will be collected from illicit software sales forums. The vulnerabilities will be classified according to what they can do when exploited. Then profiles will be developed based on the different types of vulnerabilities sold by each vendor. The profiles will be developed using artificial intelligence and interpreted with a criminological perspective. The creation of profiles allows the production of cyber security intelligence and contributes to the prevention of cyber attacks. The advantage for the partner organization lies in the integration of a criminological perspective to the technical analyses. Through this research, high-value cyber threat intelligence will be integrated in the product, thus better protecting the partner’s clients, including Canadian enterprises.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Masarah Paquet-Clouston

Student:

Partner:

Secureworks

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Postharvest changes in cannabis volatile terpenes under nitrogen packaging

EastCann, a small group of legacy cannabis growers, uses nitrogen packages for postharvest storage of dried cannabis. There is concern that nitrogen packaging adversely affects volatile terpenes and cannibinoids, each of which are important to cannabis products. This project will examine postharvest changes in terpenes and cannabinoids over time in nitrogen packaging compared to ambient atmospheric packaging. If nitrogen packaging significantly decreases postharvest quality, then the industry may elect to pursue alternative forms of preservation.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mason MacDonald

Student:

Partner:

EastCann Cannabis

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Dalhousie University

Program:

Accelerate

Évaluation automatique de la véracité du texte produit par les grands modèles de langage (en anglais, Large Language Models, ou LLM)

THIS IS A GENERIC TEXT PUT IN PLACE AS THERE WAS NO PROJECT OVERVIEW

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ioannis Mitliagkas

Student:

Partner:

Mila

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

L’attractivité des territoires par les productions cinématographiques

Ce projet se concentre sur l’attractivité des territoires (économiques, touristiques, résidentiels…) en relation avec l’activité générée par les productions cinématographiques. L’objectif est d’analyser comment les institutions publiques abordent les impacts associés aux productions cinématographiques sur leur territoire (dimension comparative France-Québec), les comprendre et d’étudier les différentes stratégies utilisées par les institutions publiques pour stimuler cette attractivité. Des rencontres avec des professionnels du tourisme, cinéma et autres acteurs clés, ainsi que des universitaires seront nécessaires. Les résultats de cette étude pourraient donc être utiles pour les acteurs publics et privés impliqués dans la planification et la promotion de leur territoire, notamment dans les secteurs de l’industrie cinématographique et du tourisme.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Laurent Bourdeau

Student:

Partner:

Aix-Marseille Université

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Education

University:

Université Laval

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Peasants and Parliaments: Agrarian Reform in Later Eighteenth-Century Europe

This project aims to reexamine the relationship between representative institutions, property rights, and long-run economic growth in preindustrial Europe. We argue that (some) early parliaments contributed to growth not so much by restraining the sovereign from violating his subjects’ property rights as by facilitating the elimination of obsolete, anti-developmental property rights. Through comparative case studies of eighteenth-century agrarian reform in the Russian Baltic province of Livonia, the Danish duchies of Schleswig and Holstein, and Prussian Silesia, we identify which forms of parliamentary organization and procedure made the retirement of “bad” property rights possible, and which, contrariwise, hindered it. Our findings promise to have significant implications for the study of political economy of development.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Brendan McElroy

Student:

Partner:

National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Public Service, Policy, and Governance

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Worldwide Trends in Brain Research: A Bibliom Analysis

Brain research has advanced our understanding of the biological substrates of human behavior and its perturbation across a variety of neurophysiological states and disorders. Over the last 80 years, Brain Research has gained a lot of traction, culminating in the 1990s which was named “The Decade of the Brain” to enhance the visibility of brain research. Bibliometrics methods have allowed researchers to assess the popularity of brain research through the ever-growing number of brain-related research papers in various bibliographic databases. While many topics of brain research have been covered by previous studies, there is no comprehensive overview of the evolution of brain research and its various specialties and funding practices over a long period of time. Using new techniques from Natural Language Processing, research topics can be inferred from abstract and titles of Brain Research papers, which can be used to infer new scientific trends. This project aims to determine (1) how brain research has evolved over time in terms of papers, (2) country rankings in terms of papers and impact, (3) how research topics vary by country and year.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Vincent Larivière

Student:

Partner:

Fondation Brain Canada

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Elevate

The impacts of land markets, access and deforestation on women’s livelihoods in the Colombian Amazon

I am interested in understanding the linkages between land markets, loss of forests and how people are able to decide how land will be used. I will measure land prices and land ownership in the past twenty years in one department of the Colombian Amazon that has experienced violence and conflict throughout the past 50 years. I will also hold workshops and interviews to understand how laws are upheld and perceived at the local level, as well as how people are using their land. I want to understand how the conflict in this region has affected women. Conflict has caused many women to leave their homes to escape the violence. The conflict also controlled how land was used, and many land owners were forced to plant certain crops. Furthermore, historically women have not been able to decide how land is used. I am interested in understanding more about these complicated dynamics and how forests and livelihoods of women can be improved.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Terry Sunderland

Student:

Partner:

CIAT | The International Center for Tropical Agriculture

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Globalink Research Award

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